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'Noover yonder to-day, Sir; is there?'

'I have heard none' 'Then you may be sure there is none When these people howl, they howl

to be heard' 'Most people do, I suppose'

'Ah! but these people are always howling Never happy otherwise' 'Do you mean the Marseilles people?'

'I mean the French people They're always at it As to Marseilles, we

knohat Marseilles is It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the

world that was ever co to so'

The speaker, with a whiood humour upon hireatest disparage up a deter his hands in his pockets and

rattling hisand , indeed It would beand'eh,' said the other

'But we shall be out to-day' 'Out to-day!' repeated the first 'It's alravation of the

enormity, that we shall be out to-day Out! What have we ever been in

for?' 'For no very strong reason, I must say But as we coue--'

'The plague!' repeated the other 'That's ue continually, ever since I have been here I am like a sane man